One of the aspects of ego about which we are mostly in denial is the fact that we like it – it works for us – and so we don’t want to give it up. It took me a long time to see this in my own experience. I still struggle with it. If youContinue reading “A Way Of Thinking For Which We Are Responsible”
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Awareness of God is Inner Peace
I walked twice today. Once because that’s what I do (it was chilly and dark and stormy) and twice because just after 1 p.m. the rain cleared and it was warm and sunny and sometimes one longs not for the hermitage but for the glorious light of God itself and seeing it right there, stepsContinue reading “Awareness of God is Inner Peace”
A Stranger to Inner Peace
Part of seeing special hate relationships clearly is making contact with my impulse to be in competition with various brothers and sisters. My perception that I am locked in a struggle for survival, and that there are only a few winners, is why I am a stranger to inner peace. Because God’s equal Sons haveContinue reading “A Stranger to Inner Peace”
In Relationship with Symbols of Truth
I do not believe that the historical Jesus dictated A Course in Miracles to Helen Schucman. Rather, I believe that Helen – in an action of profound love, profound willingness – accepted through the symbol of Jesus her real Self which, in conjunction with Bill Thetford, created the work that we now call A CourseContinue reading “In Relationship with Symbols of Truth”
Lucifer’s Error
The sin of Lucifer was called pride but in reality it was a simple error, a common mistake of thought to which we are all of us beholden: the psychological premise that what we are in truth is separate from what God is and that what God is is given unequally and that we areContinue reading “Lucifer’s Error”
ACIM and the Perennial Philosophy
I have been lately suggesting – thinking out loud, really – that A Course in Miracles is a particular expression of the perennial philosophy that may or may not be helpful as one works their way back toward God. In his book of the same title, Aldous Huxley defined the perennial philosophy as the metaphysicContinue reading “ACIM and the Perennial Philosophy”